Yesterday we began our sprint 78 VS Online deployment. You can check out the release notes here: http://www.visualstudio.com/news/2015-feb-18-vso . there are a few nice improvements. It will likely take 4 or 5 days to upgrade all accounts so don’t be surprised if you don’t see the changes...

In November, at our Connect(); event, I gave a sneak peek at a few features/services coming to VS Online, and ultimately Team Foundation Server. Among the things I demoed was a new source code search feature. I’m happy to say that the next step in that journey is upon us. Today, we announced a...

We’re in the process of trying to significantly upgrade the content on our Visual Studio website . We’re starting with the pages that describe what VS Online is and why you might want to use it. The first new page is on Agile Tools . In parallel, we are also working to add some more...

This is next in a series of licensing and feature changes that I laid out in December. With this, I think all of the cloud changes (and more) that I described have been made. Some of the on-prem changes will be available as we release more on-prem updates.
User acceptance testing
As of this week...

Microsoft has an extensive recruiting effort. But we recently decided to try something new to try to find more people who might want to help build VS Online and Team Foundation Server. We added a Jobs page to visualstudio.com. It has a little info on what we do and links to job postings on the Microsoft...

Transforming a sizeable development organization from "classic" development practices to Agile cloud development is something I talk about a lot. Bhavik Shah, who used to work on our team, left Microsoft to go to business school and now works a Mckinsey, recently wrote an article on that transformation...

In December, we hit an important milestone for Visual Studio Online. We received ISO 27001 certification and added the European Model Clauses to our service terms.
We take protection of customer data very seriously and work hard to ensure your data is safe and that we comply with expected policies...

The changes to the VS Online build and load testing services that I described a few weeks ago are now complete. This represents a substantial reduction in price for both services. We’ve also removed the 10 user limit of Visual Studio Online Professional subscriptions. The slider goes up to...

Today the Git community disclosed an issue in Git that, in the worst case, could allow a developer’s machine to be taken over. This is an issue that manifests across much of the Git ecosystem and is not unique to Microsoft’s Git implementation or to Windows. I’ll describe the problem and...

I mentioned this in my post on the sprint 75 deployment and I wanted to include a video but it wasn’t ready. Now it is and I want to share it. Keep in mind that the deployment is still in progress so it may not be available in your account yet. The deployment should be done by tomorrow...

This week we are deploying our sprint 75 results. You can read details on the VS Online release notes . For whatever confluence of reasons, a lot of things came together in this sprint an there’s a ton of new stuff that I think you will like. One of my personal favorites is the updated Wiki...

We are always working on ways to communicate more effectively with customers about what we have done, what people like and don’t like, what they want, what we’re planning, etc. A year or so ago we added a Features Timeline page to our News section of visualstudio.com as one step in that journey...

I’m excited to announce our acquisition of HockeyApp – the next step in our journey to turn Application Insights into the best tool in the world for helping you get insight into your applications. With HockeyApp we add great support for mobile devices, allowing you see more of your application...

Earlier this year, we started a process of reviewing our pricing and licensing for Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Online . Our intent was to review all of the customer feedback we’ve received to look for changes that would simplify purchasing and make it more affordable for teams to include...

This week we are rolling out the sprint 74 updates to VS Online. You can read details about the features on the service news page . There’s nothing huge here. After the larger announcements we made at Connect(); in November, we’re back to iterating on and improving capabilities more incrementally...

Just Friday, the week before, I was speaking to Buck about the incident we had the previous week and expressing a strong desire to avoid another incident anytime soon. We agreed to postpone the VS Online deployment so that we didn’t have to rush it in a short holiday week and we could ensure that...

Last week at our Connect(); event in New York City, we made some big announcements regarding our ecosystem from a developer as well as a partner point of view. In addition to those announcements, I wanted to call your attention to special offers for MSDN subscribers from some of our top Visual...

We had an incident on VS Online yesterday, starting at 1 AM UTC (5:00 PM PST). The incident was caused by an underlying Azure storage incident affecting many stamps in several regions. I don’t know the root cause of that yet but I’m sure I’ll find out. I want to start by apologizing for the...

This week we had our “Connect();” developer event in New York. We made a ton of announcements. You’ll find a bunch on Soma’s blog , the Visual Studio blog , the Visual Studio ALM blog and in the release notes . At the highest level, we announced: Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2013...

It’s not uncommon that I get questions about data security and privacy in Visual Studio Online. It’s something we take very seriously, design for, test for and focus on. Jeff Beehler, who runs our compliance team, did a talk at TechEd Europe this week on our data protection approach. As he...

In order to make it super easy for anyone to get a tiny taste of what the VS Online load test experience is about, we added a new web based experience a few days ago.
***UPDATE 10/29/2014 12:30PM EDT*** - When I wrote this, I wasn't aware that it is only available to VS Online customers licensed with...

Today we opened up our shiny, new VS Online instance in the Azure “West Europe” region, which is located in the Netherlands. This is a big step and is the first of many more to come in making VS Online a truly global service. I’ve been getting requests for over a year to provide the ability...

Today we began releasing our Sprint 72 build on VS Online. You can read the release notes on the site. As usual, it will take a couple of days for the changes to propagate across all accounts.
This sprint was a pretty light sprint. We released the “Test artifacts as work items” changes...

This week we are releasing our sprint 71 work on VS Online. You can read more about the changes on the news page . In the past, we’ve struggled with how to “time” the publishing of release notes with the deployment of the software. As we get more and more instances (we have 4 now and...

Today, we released Update 2 of Team Explorer Everywhere . You can read details on Will’s blog post . I’ve been amazed lately how many people don’t know about Team Explorer Everywhere. We’ve had it for a couple of years now. It’s a really nice solution for Java/Eclipse users to use Team...